A-SH-H – ‘creative power of conception (objects of mind) and reason (principles)’

Here again is the trope of repetition, of which I have spoken. This trope is here of the highest importance in the hieroglyphic sense, and even in the literal sense…In order to understand, it must be recalled that the root אש develops all ideas attached to the first principle; so that the verb אשה which is derived from it signifies to begin, to establish in principle, to shape, etc. Now, the grammatical trope consists of this; the word אשה taken at the same time as verb and as substantive, expresses on the one hand, the action of shaping, of beginning, and on the other, characterizes the very object of this action, Aishah, the principiant volitive faculty of Adam, his intellectual spouse. I shall relate presently what should be understood by this faculty, in analyzing the name given to intellectual man, איש (aish) in opposition to universal man, אדם (Adam). (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 90-91).